Mass hypnosis, or "Mass formation": how large populations become extreme

[gord]

If you're short on time I'll suggest watching the end of the video starting at 28:35. You'll see that he's horrified with what he recognizes is going on, and then you might want to watch the main part of the video starting around 11:16. The beginning of the video shows some clips of his professional stage hypnosis shows.

LA School District Uses Psychologically Manipulative Cartoon Using NLP / Hypnosis!!! (Aug 10, 2021)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QND31bJ78qI

Imagine your school using sneaky hypnotic mind control techniques on your kids.

https://achieve.lausd.net/dailypass

The Los Angeles Unified School District put out a highly manipulative cartoon.

As a professional stage hypnotist, clinical hypnotherapist, master and neuro linguistic programmer and conversational hypnosis practitioner I am absolutely mortified with what I'm seeing.

I break down most of the concepts being used in this video, can you spot the ones I didn't mention?

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[Delight]

TPC #792: Dr. Mattias Desmet & Dr. Robert Malone (Do People Want To Be Free?)
Tommy's Podcast Published April 27, 2022


Source: https://www.rumble.com/video/v101zxp

[Gwin Ru]

Breaking free from Mass Formation Psychosis, with Mattias Desmet

James Corbett
The Corbett Report
Mon, 30 May 2022 00:00 UTC

Mattias Desmet is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Ghent University in Belgium. His theory of mass formation during the coronavirus crisis has become widely known and widely misunderstood since gaining mainstream attention. His new book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism, lays out what mass formation is, how it develops, how it leads to totalitarianism, and what we must do to change the conditions that makes these mass formation events possible.

Source: https://www.bitchute.com/video/UttR5HDRtjOT

https://www.corbettreport.com/mp4/de...sformation.mp4

SHOW NOTES:

The Psychology of Totalitarianism by Mattias Desmet

PM launches Government's first loneliness strategy

Surgeon general: Americans must address loneliness epidemic

How Long Is the Coast of Britain? (Mandelbrot)

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

The Crowd: A Study Of The Popular Mind by Gustav Le Bon

Related (to Post # 40):

• Orgone in a Can

• Wild, Untamed Meditations (frequencies)

[gnostic9]

A very interesting conversation about "mass formation" scientism, rationalism etc. Worth a listen.



Source: Watch on Vimeo




Love peace and joy to all!

[Ewan]

Excellent, thanks gnostic9

[onawah]

MASS FORMATION IS HERDING US INTO SELF-ANNIHILATION
June 29, 2022
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/mas...-into-fascism/

(Some hyperlinks in the article not embedded here)

"To those of us not swept up in the mass formation psychosis, it has become almost impossible to distinguish between parody and what passes for reality, such as gender dysphoric men competing in sports against women and feeling “accomplished” when they win gold. See:
https://www.outsports.com/2019/6/3/1...s-testosterone

America has had a penchant for mass hysteria since the early days of the Salem witch trials but the large-scale subversion campaigns and propaganda warfare being waged against us today are designed to induce a specific form of mass hysteria that Belgian psychologist, Mattias Desmet calls “mass formation psychosis”, which he defines as a destructive groupthink that forbids dissident views. See: https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/pla...ass-formation/

Desmet has identified mass formation psychosis as a method to impose totalitarianism on a free society by exploiting large groups of people’s loneliness or their lack of connection or sense of meaning, in order to persuade them to act against their own interests, as was achieved in the societies of Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia and Communist China.

Over the past six years, the criminal establishment has programmed Americans and the world with Trump Derangement Syndrome and the closely-related Branch Covidian Cult. People succumb to these psychoses because they have been successfully conditioned by the world’s best social engineers to derive order and meaning from these belief systems. See: https://townhall.com/columnists/scot...nswer-n2601932

To be free of mass formation, Desmet writes, “There is a point where we must stop losing ourselves in the crowd to experience meaning and connection. That is the point where the winter of totalitarianism gives way to a spring of life.”

Harrison Smith has an excellent grasp of what’s going on politically and geopolitically, which he expounds upon daily on his show, American Journal on InfoWars. To illustrate what’s driving the deployment of endless distractions, like the Communist J6 Kangaroo Court Show Trial, trans pedophile kindergarten teachers and everything to do with AOC, he recently ran a clip of another very smart guy, author and former Muslim extremist who spent 5 years in an Egyptian prison, Maajid Nawaz , who knows all about mass formation of the Islamist stripe. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maajid_Nawaz

Maajid explains what he sees going on today:

“I think we’re in the middle of an attempted global palace coup and to achieve that global palace coup, which is, quite literally a takeover of global governance under one centralized authority on the planet, after having seeded agents in various national governments and being admitted to openly by Klaus Schwab, on the record at Harvard University.

“To succeed in that plan, you need to be able to destroy everybody’s connection to reality, because you’re changing reality for the purposes of an ideological agenda. You’re trying, almost like a struggle session under the Chinese Communist Party to change what people view as real, so that you can take them along with your ideological indoctrination.

“To do that, everything needs to be relative. There needs to be no such thing as truth – or, because truth is obviously a search, we can’t be so arrogant as to claim we have it – so more accurately, there can be no such a thing as the quest for truth.

“What matters is relativity, because if everything is subjective, then nothing is correct and if I have power, I can manipulate propaganda and all of the process and all of the institutions of society to push people towards a new reality, which is my dogmatic vision.

“And unfortunately, the last two years, through COVID demonstrated more than we needed, in terms of proofs and evidences around the world that this agenda has been afoot.

“And I’ll end on this note, because I like to think I’m not a stupid man and when I see every single Western national government across Europe, in the Five Eyes nations, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, those English-speaking Five Eyes nations – but also, across Europe – all of these governments making the very same mistakes on the very same issue at the very same time, you can’t convince me that there isn’t some kind of nefarious agenda going on there.”

America is being mass-murdered by our own Federal Government. Steve Kirsch, California tech entrepreneur and founder of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation estimates that as of June 24, 2022, the shots have left as many as five million Americans unable to work, 30 million injured, and more than 750,000 dead. See: https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/emb...n-65-of-cases/ https://www.technocracy.news/survey-...-of-covid-vax/

In a June 28th interview with Greg Hunter, Dr David Martin estimates that worldwide, 700 million will die from the vaxx by 2028. See: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1505155

Yet, the US Government on Wednesday agreed to buy 105 million more doses from Pfizer, to be delivered as early as late summer 2022 through the 4th quarter of this year for $3.2 billion upon receipt. There’s also an option to purchase up to 195 million additional doses, bringing the total number of potential doses to 300 million.

Utter madness. This is what 21st century warfare looks like. This is what 21st century genocide looks like.

The way they’ve been able to get away with this so far is by stealth, by gaslighting and by the financial coercion of corporate mandates. So what happens when these stop working? Is that when they trot out the nukes?

I had the opportunity to ask Katherine Watt during my weekly Thursday segment on AMP’s Making Sense of the Madness. See: https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/leg...exandra-bruce/
Katherine is a legal analyst and super sleuth, who discovered the systematic, incremental slow kill of Constitutional laws that has legalized the Globalist takeover of America under the guise of public health.
See: https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/us-...mass-genocide/

She thinks that when the narrative finally breaks down for the majority of the populace, that’s when the long-predicted mass power outages will occur, in addition to accelerated supply chain breakdowns, due to lack of Diesel and Diesel additives that further destroy the shipping industry.

It appears the post-World War II Pax Americana financial order is collapsing by design, to be replaced by a “Multipolar World Order”, also known as the BRICS alliance – the fund for which is comprised of people from the IMF and the World Bank. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. The House always wins.

The war in Ukraine and the Russian sanctions have done nothing but accelerate the process of collapsing the West and ushering in this Multipolar World Order.

Longtime subscriber and journalist, Ann Delap left this comment on one of my recent posts:

“The tables have turned. The nations of the world are doing to America what we have been doing to them for decades. The misery this creates will cause the upending of the US government by its own people. Penny Kelly has predicted a coup by early next year. Secession of several states will follow. The United States will be broken up like the Soviet Union. The bigger picture, however, is that the two factions vying for control of planet Earth actually answer to the same controllers. The break-up of America and Europe will benefit the banksters who desperately need an excuse to not pay their unfunded liabilities, i.e. Social Security, Medicare, gov’t. pensions, bonds, etc. If they get their way, the people will be screwed, as usual.”\


Source: https://www.rumble.com/video/v17vng4/?pub=ijro7

[Bill Ryan]

An excellent new 40 minute interview by Chris Martenson with Mattias Desmet.

Mattias Desmet: It's Time to Take a Stand

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=L6hFHr6-uJo

[Violet3]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
An excellent new 40 minute interview by Chris Martenson with Mattias Desmet.

Mattias Desmet: It's Time to Take a Stand

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=L6hFHr6-uJo

Wow, that guy blew my mind. Highly highly recommended. Gave me hope, a precious feeling.

[Delight]

This was really a good interview IMO. The questions were good.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0Jk08gS9cSs

[Delight]

Many of you know that Peter and Ginger Breggin have come down on Mattias Desmet. Many have followed as they suggest it sems like "victim" blaming towards us? I disagree because this situation MUST be supported by how groups perceive what is happening?

IMO this is a must watch....

“Mattias Desmet joins The Alex Jones Show to break down the psychology of totalitarianism and mass formation hypnosis.” – The Alex Jones Show



The comments on banned.video are informative. I agree with this one....

Breggin has completely missed the boat on this. Desmet IS NOT CLAIMING there is not a conspiracy and he IS NOT blaming ANYONE. You cannot talk to people that have bought into C@v!d and v@xx. You cannot talk to them. I have friends that have turned hostile. Some I have known for 20 years. Their behavior is not normal.

I have Breggin’s book we are the prey, I get his newsletter, listened to his interview s but I am beginning to wonder.

Recently watched a documentary on a teenage girl that over a long period of time convinced and heavily encouraged her boyfriend to commit suicide. She was on the phone with him as he was in the act and voicing doubts. But she said get back to it and finish the job. Breggin testified it was not her fault. She was on antidepressants. When does someone become responsible for the actions?

The c@v!d situation does not have to be either, or. Part of the c@nspir@cy is mocking bird media that causes the beliefs, rage, of the people that cannot be reasoned with.

[Johan (Keyholder)]

How many of us have read Mattias Desmet's book? (Or Gustave Le Bon, Primo Levi and Viktor Frankl?( He gives one of the clearest explanations on what is happening today. I am sure not that many people know and understand the difference between a dictatorial regime and a totalitarian one.

Or which one is "the worst" of the two.

He also clarifies that the only way to counter-act totalitarianism is not to become violent, because that only "feeds" the totalitarian system. It's what it wants. So, what can we do?

Personally, I encountered "the solution" yesterday. I went to what is called a biological fair in Namur, in the French-speaking part of Belgium. While it was all about self-sustainability in every way, it became soon apparent that the pricing of what was there was exorbitant. It looked and felt like a self-defying purpose.

But I took one interesting thing from the visit. A man that had started a micro farm (in the town of Spa) gave a talk. It was aligned with what Mattias Desmet describes, but applied to permaculture. And he also pointed out that going against the grain (of those 'in control') is incredibly difficult.

However, he reminded the public of the following tale. It's worthwhile bringing it up here I think. We can learn from it.

The Story of the Hummingbird

One day a terrible fire broke out in a forest - a huge woodlands was suddenly engulfed by a raging wild fire. Frightened, all the animals fled their homes and ran out of the forest. As they came to the edge of a stream they stopped to watch the fire and they were feeling very discouraged and powerless. They were all bemoaning the destruction of their homes. Every one of them thought there was nothing they could do about the fire, except for one little hummingbird.

This particular hummingbird decided it would do something. It swooped into the stream and picked up a few drops of water and went into the forest and put them on the fire. Then it went back to the stream and did it again, and it kept going back, again and again and again. All the other animals watched in disbelief; some tried to discourage the hummingbird with comments like, "Don't bother, it is too much, you are too little, your wings will burn, your beak is too tiny, it’s only a drop, you can't put out this fire."

And as the animals stood around disparaging the little bird’s efforts, the bird noticed how hopeless and forlorn they looked. Then one of the animals shouted out and challenged the hummingbird in a mocking voice, "What do you think you are doing?" And the hummingbird, without wasting time or losing a beat, looked back and said, "I am doing what I can."

[Johan (Keyholder)]

It is a good exercice for us to know and distinguish these two different points of view, ideas.

The two best links (I think) to follow their arguments:

Mattias Desmet: https://mattiasdesmet.substack.com/p...mass-formation

The Breggin's: https://breggin.com/article-detail/p...The-Full-Story

What do you think?

[ExomatrixTV]

• The Psychology of Totalitarianism

What if beLIEved lies is the only real "currency" of psychopathic control freaks!

I call it "Perception Wars" ...

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

[gini]

Conversation with Robert F. Kennedy JR. | How The Powerful Captured The Public During The Pandemic---Kim Iverson- Feb 4, 2023--12 min--

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=izklfQVWYMA

Robert F. Kennedy JR joins the show...catch the full interview here:
https://rumble.com/v288tw7-conversati...

[Johnnycomelately]

Came across this Wiki page while reading about one of Erin Brockovich’s failed lawsuits, which followed a story about California’s new regs on hexavalent Chromium that used the movie title in the headline. Thought it sounded like what this thread is about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness


Mass psychogenic illness

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Mass hysteria" redirects here. For the band, see Mass Hysteria (band).

Mass psychogenic illness (MPI), also called mass sociogenic illness, mass psychogenic disorder, epidemic hysteria or mass hysteria, involves the spread of illness symptoms through a population where there is no infectious agent responsible for contagion.[1] It is the rapid spread of illness signs and symptoms affecting members of a cohesive group, originating from a nervous system disturbance involving excitation, loss, or alteration of function, whereby physical complaints that are exhibited unconsciously have no corresponding organic causes that are known.[2]

Causes

MPI is distinct from other types of collective delusions by involving physical symptoms.[3] It is not well understood and its causes are uncertain.[4] Qualities of MPI outbreaks often include:[3]

symptoms that have no plausible organic basis;
symptoms that are transient and benign;
symptoms with rapid onset and recovery;
occurrence in a segregated group;
the presence of extraordinary anxiety;
symptoms that are spread via sight, sound or oral communication;
a spread that moves down the age scale, beginning with older or higher-status people;

British psychiatrist Simon Wessely distinguishes between two forms of MPI:[2]

Mass anxiety hysteria "consists of episodes of acute anxiety, occurring mainly in schoolchildren. Prior tension is absent and the rapid spread is by visual contact."[5]
Mass motor hysteria "consists of abnormalities in motor behaviour. It occurs in any age group and prior tension is present. Initial cases can be identified and the spread is gradual. ... [T]he outbreak may be prolonged."[5]
While his definition is sometimes adhered to,[2][6] others contest Wessely's definition and describe outbreaks with qualities of both mass motor hysteria and mass anxiety hysteria.[7]

The DSM-IV-TR does not define a diagnosis for this condition but the text describing conversion disorder states that "In 'epidemic hysteria', shared symptoms develop in a circumscribed group of people following 'exposure' to a common precipitant."

Common symptoms

Timothy F. Jones of the Tennessee Department of Health compiles the following symptoms based on their commonality in outbreaks occurring in 1980–1990:[8]

Symptom Percent reporting

Headache 67
Dizziness or light-headedness 46
Nausea 41
Abdominal cramps or pain 39
Cough 31
Fatigue, drowsiness or weakness 31
Sore or burning throat 30
Hyperventilation or difficulty breathing 19
Watery or irritated eyes 13
Chest tightness/chest pain 12
Inability to concentrate/trouble thinking 11
Vomiting 10
Tingling, numbness or paralysis 10
Anxiety or nervousness 8
Diarrhea 7
Trouble with vision 7
Rash 4
Loss of consciousness/syncope 4
Itching 3

Prevalence and intensity

Adolescents and children are frequently affected in cases of MPI.[8] The hypothesis that those prone to extraversion or neuroticism, or those with low IQ scores, are more likely to be affected in an outbreak of hysterical epidemic has not been consistently supported by research. Bartholomew and Wessely state that it "seems clear that there is no particular predisposition to mass sociogenic illness and it is a behavioural reaction that anyone can show in the right circumstances."[2]

Intense media coverage seems to exacerbate outbreaks.[4][6][8] The illness may also recur after the initial outbreak.[8] John Waller advises that once it is determined that the illness is psychogenic, it should not be given credence by authorities.[6] For example, in the Singapore factory case study, calling in a medicine man to perform an exorcism seemed to perpetuate the outbreak.[9]

Research

Besides the difficulties common to all research involving the social sciences, including a lack of opportunity for controlled experiments, mass sociogenic illness presents special difficulties to researchers in this field. Balaratnasingam and Janca report that the methods for "diagnosis of mass hysteria remain contentious."[4] According to Jones, the effects resulting from MPI "can be difficult to differentiate from [those of] bioterrorism, rapidly spreading infection or acute toxic exposure."[8]

These troubles result from the residual diagnosis of MPI. There is a lack of logic in an argument that proceeds: "There isn't anything, so it must be MPI." It is an example of an argument from ignorance, with ignorance here intended to mean "an absence of contrary evidence". It precludes the notion that an organic factor could have been overlooked (i.e. that there may have been insufficient investigation), or the possibility that the answer may currently be unknown but known at a future point in time. Nevertheless, running an extensive number of tests extends the probability of false positives. Singer, of the Uniformed Schools of Medicine, has summarized the problems with such a diagnosis:[10]

[Y]ou find a group of people getting sick, you investigate, you measure everything you can measure ... and when you still can't find any physical reason, you say "well, there's nothing else here, so let's call it a case of MPI."[10]

Relationship to autism and mirror neurons

Due to the role of the visual and auditory systems in MPI, a link between MPI and mirror neurons has been suggested.[11] In this context, MPI appears as the neurological opposite of autism, caused by an overactive, not underactive, mirror neuron system.[12] This could in turn explain the gender difference bias observed in these two conditions, with autism predominantly affecting males (persons with autism show diminished activity in the mirror neuron system),[13] and MPI predominantly affecting young girls,[14] [15] [16] [17] who appear to have a more sensitive mirror system.[18]

In history

See also: List of mass hysteria cases

Middle Ages

The earliest studied cases linked with epidemic hysteria are the dancing manias of the Middle Ages, including St. John's dance and tarantism. These were supposed to be associated with spirit possession or the bite of the tarantula. Those with dancing mania would dance in large groups, sometimes for weeks at a time. The dancing was sometimes accompanied by stripping, howling, the making of obscene gestures, or even (reportedly) laughing or crying to the point of death. Dancing mania was widespread over Europe.[19]

Between the 15th and 19th centuries, instances of motor hysteria were common in nunneries. The young ladies that made up these convents were sometimes forced there by family. Once accepted, they took vows of chastity and poverty. Their lives were highly regimented and often marked by strict disciplinary action. The nuns would exhibit a variety of behaviors, usually attributed to demonic possession. They would often use crude language and exhibit suggestive behaviors. One convent's nuns would regularly meow like cats.[20] Priests were often called in to exorcise demons.[2]

18th to 21st centuries

In factories

MPI outbreaks occurred in factories following the industrial revolution in England, France, Germany, Italy and Russia[2] as well as the United States and Singapore.

W. H. Phoon, Ministry of Labour in Singapore, gives a case study of six outbreaks of MPI in Singapore factories between 1973 and 1978.[9] They were characterized by (1) hysterical seizures of screaming and general violence, wherein tranquilizers were ineffective (2) trance states, where a worker would claim to be speaking under the influence of a spirit or jinn and (3) frightened spells: some workers complained of unprecedented fear, or of being cold, numb, or dizzy. Outbreaks would subside in about a week. Often a bomoh (medicine man) would be called in to do a ritual exorcism. This technique was not effective and sometimes seemed to exacerbate the MPI outbreak. Females and Malay people were affected disproportionately.[citation needed]

Especially notable is the "June Bug" outbreak:[21] In June 1962, a peak month in factory production, 62 workers at a dressmaking factory in a textile town in the Southern United States[a] experienced symptoms including severe nausea and breaking out on the skin. Most outbreaks occurred during the first shift, where four fifths of the workers were female. Of 62 total outbreaks, 59 were women, some of whom believed they were bitten by bugs from a fabric shipment,[24] so entomologists and others were called in to discover the pathogen, but none was found. Kerchoff coordinated the interview of affected and unaffected workers at the factory and summarizes his findings:

Strain – those affected were more likely to work overtime frequently and provide the majority of the family income. Many were married with children.
Affected persons tended to deny their difficulties. Kerchoff postulates that such were "less likely to cope successfully under conditions of strain."
Results seemed consistent with a model of social contagion. Groups of affected persons tended to have strong social ties.
Kerchoff also links the rapid rate of contagion with the apparent reasonableness of the bug infestation theory and the credence given to it in accompanying news stories.

Stahl and Lebedun[25] describe an outbreak of mass sociogenic illness in the data center of a university town in the United States Midwest in 1974. Ten of 39 workers smelling an unconfirmed "mystery gas" were rushed to a hospital with symptoms of dizziness, fainting, nausea and vomiting. They report that most workers were young women either putting their husbands through school or supplementing the family income. Those affected were found to have high levels of job dissatisfaction. Those with strong social ties tended to have similar reactions to the supposed gas, which only one unaffected woman reported smelling. No gas was detected in subsequent tests of the data center.

In schools

Mass hysteria affected schools in Berry, Alabama, and Miami Beach in 1974, with the former episode taking the form of recurring itches, and the latter initially triggering fears of poison gas (it was traced back to a popular student who happened to be sick with a virus).[26]

Thousands were affected by the spread of a supposed illness in a province of Kosovo in March to June 1990, exclusively affecting ethnic Albanians, most of whom were young adolescents.[27] A wide variety of symptoms were manifested, including headache, dizziness, impeded respiration, weakness/adynamia, burning sensations, cramps, retrosternal/chest pain, dry mouth and nausea. After the illness had subsided, a bipartisan Federal Commission released a document, offering the explanation of psychogenic illness. Radovanovic of the Department of Community Medicine and Behavioural Sciences Faculty of Medicine in Safat, Kuwait, reports:

This document did not satisfy either of the two ethnic groups. Many Albanian doctors believed that what they had witnessed was an unusual epidemic of poisoning. The majority of their Serbian colleagues also ignored any explanation in terms of psychopathology. They suggested that the incident was faked with the intention of showing Serbs in a bad light but that it failed due to poor organization.

Rodovanovic expects that this reported instance of mass sociogenic illness was precipitated by the demonstrated volatile and culturally tense situation in the province.[27]

The Tanganyika laughter epidemic of 1962 was an outbreak of laughing attacks rumored to have occurred in or near the village of Kanshasa on the western coast of Lake Victoria in the modern nation of Tanzania, eventually affecting 14 different schools and over 1,000 people.

On the morning of Thursday 7 October 1965, at a girls' school in Blackburn in England, several girls complained of dizziness.[28][29] Some fainted. Within a couple of hours, 85 girls from the school were rushed by ambulance to a nearby hospital after fainting. Symptoms included swooning, moaning, chattering of teeth, hyperpnea, and tetany. Moss and McEvedy published their analysis of the event about one year later. Their conclusions follow.[28] Their conclusion about the above-average extraversion and neuroticism of those affected is not necessarily typical of MPI:[2]

Clinical and laboratory findings were essentially negative.
Investigations by the public health authorities did not uncover any evidence of pollution of food or air.
The epidemiology of the outbreak was investigated by means of questionnaires administered to the whole school population. It was established that the outbreaks began among the 14-year-olds, but that the heaviest incidence moved to the youngest age groups.
By using the Eysenck Personality Inventory, it was established that, in all age groups, the mean E [extraversion] and N [neuroticism] scores of the affected were higher than those of the unaffected.
The younger girls proved more susceptible, but disturbance was more severe and lasted longer in the older girls.
It was considered that the epidemic was hysterical, that a previous polio epidemic had rendered the population emotionally vulnerable, and that a three-hour parade, producing 20 faints on the day before the first outbreak, had been the specific trigger.
The data collected were thought to be incompatible with organic theories and with the compromise theory of an organic nucleus.
Another possible case occurred in Belgium in June 1999 when people, mainly schoolchildren, became ill after drinking Coca-Cola.[30] In the end, scientists were divided over the scale of the outbreak, whether it fully explains the many different symptoms and the scale to which sociogenic illness affected those involved.[31][32]

A possible outbreak of mass psychogenic illness occurred at Le Roy Junior-Senior High School in 2011, in upstate New York, US, in which multiple students began having symptoms similar to Tourette syndrome. Various health professionals ruled out such factors as Gardasil, drinking water contamination, illegal drugs, carbon monoxide poisoning and various other potential environmental or infectious causes, before diagnosing the students with a conversion disorder and mass psychogenic illness.[33]
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